Estes Park High School - Whispering Pine Yearbook (Estes Park, CO)

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 PROPHECY While studying styles in Europe, I was pleased to receive an invitation from Mr. Caldwell of Estes Park High School, which was dated April 24, 1942. 1 wondered where 1 had heard of April 24. Oh, yes. that was the date we had set for our Senior play back in the year '36. This invitation was to a re-union of the Senior Class of 1936. Enclosed was a letter telling what had happened to the thirteen graduates of '36. After explaining his point the letter read thus: “We are happy to announce that we have, at last, located the former Naomi Stith. You know in High School she and a boy named George Peek were madly in love. Well, they were married in 1936, but were divorced within three months. Then Naomi completely disappeared. We have just located her in a little town called High Way, Indiana, where she is a hotel manager. Of course you know the former Until Hurt is now married and is still traveling with her husband in the dump truck. They have two children. Junior and Mary Lucille. She named her girl after her old pal Mary Lucille Griffith, who was formerly the head waitress at the Nifty Lunch in Estes Park. She is now in Washington on business. We have caught up with one Carl Jeffries who had such talent in the musical line at school. He is now street cleaner at 12th and Broadway in Denver. Carl is married, of course, and to Mary Katherine Turner. We all thought she would make the Metropolitan Opera stage, but after her part in the operetta “Windmills of Holland’’ she completely forgot her music. Hattie Stirling, now married to a New York broker, whom she worked for in Estes Park for four years after her graduation, will fly to Estes Park in her private plane. Her husband will not accompany her because In- will have to tend their mansion and servants while Hattie is in Estes Park. Remember vour manner’s and make a good impression. Lee Wright, who entertained us all with his tap dancing, is now a farmer in the sugar beet country. When he won the $25.00 in a limerick contest we thought lie might possibly be a poet, but sugar beets seem to be more profitable. Of course Helen Thorne made a great success of her marriage. She and her husband are now living in Denver and often visit in Estes Park. They have one child, Arlene, who is now three months old. Elizabeth Schlapfer, who had such a time in Chemistry, has taken a Chemistry-Physics course at Greeley State Teachers, and is now teaching at Ber-fhoud. We can all see now that her pretense to hate Berthoud when playing basketball was just a bluff. We found that Glenn Jackson went to California for his health after he had graduated in ’36. He is now Dean of Men in a small college there in Hollywood. Bob Rivers, who loved to ski. is the boy with a future who made good. He is now in Switzerland and is giving skiing lessons for a living. The last Mary Lucille heard of him he was desperately in love with an Italian girl who is taking lessons from him. Donald Dey. who was studying to be an accountant, is now a bookkeeper at the Better Bank and Trust Company of New York. —Phyllis Andrews

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We the Senior Class, being of sound mind, memory, and body, do make, publish and declare this our last will and testament, in manner and form as follows: First : To the entire Estes Park High School we leave the right to life, love, and pursuit of knowledge. Second: To the beloved faculty we leave what bits of wisdom and philosophy we have betrayed from time to time to be kept and used to the betterment of their minds and the minds of the students we leave behind. Third : To the .Junior ('lass we will the high and mighty name of Seniors, our seats in Study Hall, our books, and our dignity and poise to be used and treasured by them, their heirs, and their assigns forever. Fourth : To the Sophomore Class we will our notebooks, notes, and even more important, our ability to dance, take part in social affairs, and carry on love affairs successfully. Fifth: To the Freshman Class we will any scraps of paper, bits of pencils, old gum, etc., they may find around the school. Also we will them the privilege of asking us for advice at any time. Sixth: The following may seem but trifling bequests, but we, the members of the Senior Class, hope and trust they will be accepted gratefully and pridefully. 1. Donald Dev wills his amazing intellect to Donald Sanborn. 2. To Edith Caswell, Ruth Hurt wills the extreme right side of the seat in the dump truck. Helen Thorne wills her slim figure to Warren Hurd. 4. Lee Wright wills his ability to tap dance to Warren Caldwell. 5. Mary Lucille Griffith wills her ability to giggle to George Watson. 6. To Jack Stith, Mary Turner wills her long legs. 7. Elizabeth Schlapfer wills her plumpness to Jean McIntyre. 8. Glenn Jackson wills his pipe to Mr. Andrews. 9. Carl Jeffries, Bob Rivers, and Glenn Jackson will their ability to drive to Harold Boag. 10. Bob Rivers wills his ability to ski to Jack Ryan. 11. Hattie Stirling wills her ability to keep her dates straight to Joyce Sawdey. 12. Naomi Stith wills her ability to be true to one fellow to Garry Harris. 13. Phyllis Andrews wills her affections for Harvey Hurt to Darlene Carmack. In Witness Whereof we affix our name and best wishes. Attest: Helen Thorne. THE SENIOR CLASS.

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SENIOR HAPPENINGS KID DAY In their Junior year the members of the graduating class provided much amusement and entertainment to themselves and the rest of the students by having a kid day. All day they paraded through the halls dressed as kids. Dolls, tops, allday suckers, toy dogs, etc., were much in evidence as were short dresses, hair ribbons, knee pants, and sailor hats. Hattie Stirling was chosen as the best little girl, and LaVerne Miller was chosen as the best little boy. I he kids entertained the rest of the High School hv giving a short hut entertaining program in Study Hall. • • • • • PROGRESSIVE DINNER Also during their Junior year the class enjoyed a progressive dinner. Each member of the class invited a guest to the dinner and a dance, wnich was held at the Plantation Inn. The homes of Margaret Boothroyd, Mary Turner. Naomi Stith, and Bob Rivers were the scenes of the cocktail, soup, salad, and dessert courses. The main course was given at the Hupp Hotel by Miss Winifred Karr, the class sponsor. Everyone greatly enjoyed the dinner and dance and vowed to have another such party. • • • .11 NIOR-SENIOR BA NQI'ET As is customary the class, as Juniors, entertained the Seniors at the Junior-Senior banquet given at Baldpate Inn. A flower garden made a fitting background in the banquet hall for the pastel colors of the girls' dresses. Several after-dinner speeches were given which also carried out the idea of a flower garden. The garden scene was repeated at the dance hall, where the school board, faculty, the Juniors and Seniors, and their guests danced with much enjoyment to the music of a valley orchestra. At intermission the Juniors entertained their guests with a short musical program. After intermission the dancing continued until one, at which time everyone left with regret, hut with the knowledge of having had a grand time. — Uelen Thorne.